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While we were unable to run a live blog of the Intel Keynote this year, there were still a number of interesting announcements made by Ren&eacute;e James, President of Intel.&nbsp; First job of a Keynote is to explain part of the past and the future, and we were told that the scope of the &lsquo;Internet of Things&rsquo; is predicted to be in the region of 50 billion units by 2020.&nbsp; Intel&rsquo;s specific focus in the semiconductor part of the equation Moore&rsquo;s Law, and as a result they showed us the first device with a 14nm part, the ASUS Transformer T300 Chi that we saw yesterday at the ASUS Press Conference.&nbsp; Jonney Shih from ASUS was o<span style="font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: transparent;">n the Intel stage showcasing the T300 Chi.</span></p>
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The heart of the 14nm processors is under the new Core-M branding.&nbsp; While clock speeds and core counts were not mentioned, the &lsquo;Core&rsquo; part of the name means that this should be a Broadwell derived component.&nbsp; Echoing what CEO Brian Krzanich said earlier in the year, Ren&eacute;e confirmed that Core-M would be in the hands of end-users by the holiday season.</p>
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Also on show were tablets based on the Core-M technology, in the 10W range but also fanless.</p>
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As part of Intel&rsquo;s LTE strategy, Mr Shih also demoed the ASUS Transformer Pad 303 with integrated LTE, showing HD streaming of a film.</p>
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Intel&rsquo;s SoFIA platform, the combined quad-core Atom and 3G modem for entry and value markets, will be shipping in Q4.&nbsp; This is the primary purpose of the deal with Rockchip, with derivatives of SoFIA being sold by both parties.&nbsp; Intel&rsquo;s strategy in this is to get into more markets more quickly and spread the brand.</p>
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As an enthusiast, news about Devil&rsquo;s Canyon being launched was expected, and Intel delivered a brief statement regarding the top SKU having four cores at 4 GHz, as well as the Pentium Anniversary model.&nbsp; Details about these processors came through Intel&rsquo;s PR channels, but we are still awaiting a retail date.&nbsp;&nbsp; Review samples should be with us when we get back from Computex.</p>
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Another element to the presentation was the official launch of the Intel DC P3700, an enterprise SSD for datacenters.</p>
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Intel also showed their RealSENSE camera - a camera with a 60 fps depth map sensor to allow interaction in real time. &nbsp;As part of the RealSENSE ecosystem, Intel is releasing an SDK kit with a camera and offering a $1m prize for the best app created with the device. &nbsp;It actually looks like an upgraded kinect sensor.</p>
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The onscreen demo of RealSENSE was a laptop with the camera installed and an avatar moving in real time. &nbsp;The software was programmed to track fifty different elements and muscles of the face, including the direction in which the eyes were looking.</p>
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<div>Gallery: Intel Keynote at Computex 2014: 14nm Core-M, SoFIA, Devil’s Canyon, DC P3700 and RealSENSE<div></div></div></p>
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